Does anyone know this brave young man is, and who his parents are? Coffee County Progress ... November 7, 1918 WILLACOOCHEE BOY IS KILLED IN FRANCE Mr. J. M. Roberts, who is a prominent merchant and cotton buyer of Willacoochee, has received a message from Brigadier-general Long, giving his first notice of the death of his son Claude A. Roberts, who was killed in action on the 3rd day of October. He was barely 21 years of age. He volunteered for service in the Marine Corps on the 24th of April last and left for overseas duty soon thereafter. At the time of his death he was serving in the Sixth Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps, somewhere in France, and had been over the top a number of times as indicted in his last letter to his father, dated September 24th, and was in action at the time he received the mortal wound. The news of his heroic death was a shock to his many friends. He was a young man of unusual courage, fine character and full of patriotic zeal and love for country, which prompted him to enlist for service as a volunteer. SOURCE: Personal research. Old newspapers on microfilm. Satilla Regional Library, Genealogy Dept., Douglas, Coffee Co., GA. Tuesday, November 16, 2004.